Educational Quotes - Page 24

• One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

  Paulo Freire

  Views, People, Political

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.68, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

  Che Guevara

  Children, Wall, Privilege

  "'The University Should Color Itself Black, Mulatto, Worker and Peasant'". Speech to the University of Las Villas, www.themilitant.com. December 28, 1959.

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• ...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

  Chris Crutcher

  Heart, Men, Blue

  Chris Crutcher (2002). “Whale Talk”, Laurel Leaf

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• The educational process has no end beyond itself; it is its own end.

  John Dewey

  Ends, Process

  John Dewey (2009). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.89, The Floating Press

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• Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Inspirational, Learning, Quality

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.18, New Society Publishers

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• Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

  Sophie Kinsella

  Book, Shopping, Sophie

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• Bee stings are very educational

  Garth Nix

  Bees

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Life Is Like, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Art, Writing, Garden

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (1925). “In the Garden ...”

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• Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

  Randy Pausch

  Kids, Parenting, Favors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Play, Answers

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• Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

  Charles Portis

  Writing, Long, Interesting

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.52, A&C Black

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• The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That is why every newly minted constable, regardless of their educational background, has to spend a two-year probationary period as an ordinary plod on the streets. This is because nothing builds character like being abused, spat at and vomited by members of the public.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Character, Thinking, Years

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• (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Technology, Issues, Space

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• What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Book, Healing, Blessing

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

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• Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

  Paula Fox

  Inspirational, Life, Imagination

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• but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

  Meg Rosoff

  New York, Kids, Thinking

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• The kid dead on the ground. Fourteen, Ash. Fourteen. I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Yeah…” – Acheron “Ash, I’m fourteen.” – Nick “Got it. You’re fourteen. I’m so proud you can count that high. It’s a testament to the modern American educational system. But I should probably point out that you’re not the only one. I’m told you go a school with a whole class of – get this – kids who are fourteen.” – Acheron

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  School, Kids, Class

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• In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

  Louis L'Amour

  Country, Teacher, Ideas

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.12, Bantam

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• You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Loyal Customers

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2015

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• In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!

  Spider Robinson

  Jobs, Night, College

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• Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

  Confucius

  Goal, Missing, Scared

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Failure, Faults

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it.

  Michel Foucault

  Mean, Political, Battle

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The Archaeology of Knowledge”, p.373, Vintage

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• I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Institutions, Educated, Persons

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